Anita L. Allen is an award-winning attorney and the Henry R. Silverman Professor of Law and Professor of Philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania, where she is also an affiliate of the Leonard Davis Institute for Health Economics, the Africana Studies Department, the Center for Ethcs and the Rule of Law, the Warren Center for Data and Network Science and the Center for Technology Innovation and Competition. Allen served for seven years as Penn's Vice Provost for Faculty and Chair of the Provost's Arts and Culture Council. A past President of the American Philosophical Association, Allen is a member of the National Academy of Medicine, the American Law Institute and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Allen was recently elected to the American Philosophical Society. Allen served on President Barack Obama's National Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues and the boards of the National Constitution Center, the Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law, the Future of Privacy Forum and the Electronic Privacy Information Center. Allen is a graduate of Harvard Law School, with a PhD in Philosophy from the University of Michigan, and honorary doctorates from Tilburg University in the Netherlands and the College of Wooster in the USA. She is a globally recognized expert on privacy, data protection and values. Her books include Privacy Law and Society, Unpopular Privacy, The New Ethics, and Why Privacy Isn’t Everything. Allen has been a columnist and featured on National Public Radio and in newspapers, magazines and blogs, including The New York Times, The Stone and What It’s Like to be a Philosopher. Allen's recent article in the Yale Law Review Forum, "Dismantling the Black Opticon" exlores the ways in which African Americans are vulnerable online and what can be done through data protection and privacy laws to reduce common forms of discrimination.